Water Infrastructure Asset Management
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 51276
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban water cycle management; climate change adaptation; rainfall; urban drainage and flood; infrastructure asset management
Interests: flood risk management; probabilistic design in hydraulic engineering; hydraulics of deltas; asset management of flood infrastructure; reservoir management; water defence structures
2. University of Oxford Honorary Fellow, Oxford, UK
Interests: strategic flood risk management; flood defence planning; design; management; nature-based approaches; flood social and economic vulnerability; coastal erosion; climate risk and resilience
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many civil infrastructure systems have water-related functions: Flood defence, marine infrastructures, irrigation, drinking water, sewage, etc. Considerable investments are required for building, renovating and maintaining these systems. Most influence (positively or negatively) other associated systems, serve multiple functions and are often operated by more than one owner/manager. This tapestry of type, function and ownership present a complex challenge to life cycle asset management.
In recent decades, these complex challenges have motivated the development of more strategic, whole life and multi-disciplinary approaches to guide the design, maintenance and planning of water infrastructure assets. Across these asset types engineers and designers face similar issues and this special issue focuses on the latest developments in managing water-related infrastructure systems, including (but not limited to), buried pipe (drinking/sewer water) systems, dikes and dunes, storm surge barriers, bridge pillars, locks, sluices, retaining walls, harbour infrastructures, reservoirs and dams, irrigation systems, etc.
We invite submissions from across water infrastructure asset management, that address key challenges of (i) How to appropriately reconfigure existing assets and design new assets in a way that makes future adaptation easy. (ii) How best to ensure infrastructure assets delivery multiple life-time outcomes for society and the environment. (iii) How to work embrace the contribution of natural infrastructure alongside conventional infrastructure.
We encourage you to consider the opportunity for water infrastructure asset managers in addressing these challenges and welcome papers that aspects a broad range of topics, including:
- Data management: Asset inventories, innovation data collation methods and uncertainty handling, data value
- Asset condition assessment and deterioration modelling
- Asset failure modes and reliability analysis.
- Risk-based planning and optimisation of renewal programming.
- Asset adaptation and life cycle management (managing uncertainty, climate change, funding, changing demands and requirements, scenario analysis, societal cost benefit approaches, system optimization and planning);
- Life time extension approaches: repair and renovation techniques, design, probabilistic modelling and maintenance optimization.
- Software tools for addressing different aspects of asset management (e.g., optimization, life-cycle costing)
- Innovations in (Higher) Education and training in AM for water infrastructure.
Dr. Assela Pathirana
Mr. Frank den Heijer
Mr. Paul Sayers
Guest Editors
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